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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 May 1893 · page 3

ON Monday, the 8th instant, a young man named Geo. Boulton, a teacher in the Wheeo district, was brought in to Dr. Drought, suffering from injuries received by a horse he was…

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Woman Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1893 · page 2

THE body of the woman who was drowned at the wharf of the Mort's Dock Ferry, Erskine-street, on Tuesday night, was identified on Wednesday morning as that of Elizabeth Mace, 34 years of age, and…

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A Mining Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1893 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A sad fatality occurred to-day at Taylor's shaft at Moonta Mines. Two miners, John Thomas and Ernest Paull, both married men, were killed. The bodies were frightfully…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1893 · page 4

THE many friends of Mr. Harry Morrice, the popular secretary to the Marulan P., A. H. and I Society, will regret to hear that he met with an accident on Saturday evening last. He was…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 5

'That is, common life,' Rhoda rejoined But you can put romance into that if you like to try. I think there will be romance in mine. Well, good night children : I hope…

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Fatal Accident in a Steeplechase

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 4

TOUCHING the sad and premature death of young Mr. Cussen, announced in our columns, the Irish Daily Independent says : -- "Mr. G. Cussen who rode…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 2

ON last Friday afternoon a very painful accident happened to Mr. John Howard, jun., of Cotta Walla. It appears Mr. Howard was returning home with a load…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 3

LAST Friday afternoon a very painful accident happened to Mr. John Howard junior of Cotta Walla. It appears Mr. Howard was returning home with a load of chaff on a…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 5

A little before eight o'clock the two men were in one of the stage boxes of the Lyceum, Mat Ardant all vivacity and talk, Vesey languid and silent. Mat watched the…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 4

BEGA, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred lest night to Laurence H. Rixon, aged 19, son of Mr. James Rixon, of Rocky Hall. He was opossum shooting at Brogo, about 10 miles out, and had…

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The Late Accident to Mr. H. Morrice

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 May 1893 · page 3

We are pleased to hear that Mr. H. Morrice of Glenrock, who met with serious injuries on 18th instant by a fall from his horse, is recovering under the skilful treatment of Dr…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1893 · page 4

'Oh, well, we shall see,' Sir Archibald said, 'only pray wait no longer now, the hour is very late. After a day of honourable labour you must be in need of repose.'…

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The Drowning of an Infant by its Mother

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1893 · page 2

THE Water Police succeeded on Monday in finding the body of the infant which was drowned at Circular Quay by its mother, Susan Moore, a single woman. The body, which was floating near the…

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Football Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1893 · page 1

A PAINFUL accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Randwick to a football player named Robert Dawson, one of the Balmain Ormondes. Dawson was running with the…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 5

'You are a fool,' he said,' you know nothing about it. Read this bit of Rhoda's last letter to me.' He took a letter from his pocket and tore…

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Terrible Fatality at Botany Bay. Seven Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon a terrible fatality occurred in Botany Bay. A sailing boat, in which were seven men and a boy, swamped in the middle of the bay, and of the occupants only one man escaped…

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Terrible Boiler Explosion.—Two Persons Killed and Several Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 2

RYLSTONE, Friday.—A terrible accident, attended with fatal results, occurred this morning at 9 o'clock The boiler of the steam roller flour mill, erected about 2 months since, exploded, and was projected…

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Railway Accident at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA Friday.—An accident occurred to the mail train from Gundogai, due at 7.20, half an hour before the Southern mail. At the crossing points from the Gundagai to the main line…

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Accident at Cootamundra Station

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 June 1893 · page 3

INFORMATION was received in town late on Friday evening that a peculiar accident had occurred at Cootamundra railway station. The mail train from Gundagai arrives at…

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The Boating Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 4

UP till a late hour on Sunday night the bodies of five of the victims of the Botany boating disaster had been recovered The bodies of Eales and M' Kechnie are missing. Watts said that when the…

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